These were the precursors to the juggernaut now known simply as the Islamic State, which has, under Bagdhadi's command, overrun much of the west and centre of the country and eastern Syria, and drawn the US military back to a deeply destabilised region less than three years after it left vowing never to return.
With Labor, the Greens and the Palmer United party all vowing to oppose the $7 Medicare co-payment and long-term changes to pension eligibility and the pension age, these moves appear unlikely to pass the new Senate that sits from July, and other measures are likely to also face some opposition.
Teacher workloads have received government attention of late with deputy prime minister Nick Clegg vowing to rein in the "runaway train of bureaucracy" that harasses the profession.
In Chicago, about 200 members of the Black Youth Project staged a sit-in outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office, vowing to stay there for 28 hours.
Baird said the election victory had handed the Coalition a mandate to "make NSW great" and blamed the seat losses on a scare campaign by Labor, vowing to win them back at the next election.
A week later, Coeur d'Alene police chief Ron Clark announced he had reassigned Kelley to desk duty and promised an immediate, thorough investigation, vowing to do everything in his power to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.
The tax authorities have not paid the claim, vowing to stop "tax dodgers" from exploiting charitable tax relief.
"I owe it to people to offer them a viable alternative," he said, vowing there would be "no retributions, no paybacks, none of that stuff" if he won.
In late May, the pro-western billionaire Petro Poroshenko won a decisive victory in the presidential election, vowing to restore law and order to the east.
Murray was defiant in defeat, vowing to come back to Wimbledon next year and go one better.
They have to uphold the principles their new members brought with them: vowing not to privatise the NHS, to end Trident, to find alternatives to austerity.
